Dan Hinxman: Postcard from New Orleans: Touching down for the big game

It took a little more than two hours from touch down of the Boeing 737 on Monday afternoon to the starting of my laptop in a Big Easy hotel.

I'm not on deadline - being two hours ahead certainly helps this week as I cover my first Super Bowl, this one being XLVII between San Francisco and Baltimore at the Superdome on Sunday. But there is a sense of urgency to get this four- or five-paragraph missive finished.